WAVE sampling in the Rondout Creek, 2015. Ben Ganon is at center. (Photo courtesy Laura Heady/Town of Rosendale CCE)
Dozens of people attended the second annual Rondout Creek Watershed Summit March 29, organized by Riverkeeper and the environmental commissions of the towns of Rochester and Marbletown. Riverkeeper presented some of our latest analyzes of water quality data gathered by community scientists in the watershed. […]
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Substance observed this morning on the Hudson River shoreline at Verplanck.
Riverkeeper has received several reports today of a heavy, yellow-white substance in areas of Hudson River shoreline from Yonkers to Verplanck. The Department of Environmental Conservation suspects it may be pollen, some reports described the material as oily. If you suspect it may not be […]
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On March 9, Luke Iwanowicz of U.S. Geological Survey, and Tyrone Hayes of University of California, Berkeley, gave presentations at SUNY New Paltz, co-presented by Riverkeeper and the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance. Iwanowicz is the lead author on a recent study that found intersex fish […]
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Proposals could boost spending on new Water Infrastructure Improvement Act grants program to as much as $325 million per year. Our coalition continues to highlight the need for $800 million in annual spending, recognizing that New York State faces the nation’s greatest documented need for […]
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The fact that there are more juvenile Atlantic sturgeon, as announced this week by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, is great news.
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In an historic agreement announced today, the City of Newburgh and the Department of Environmental Conservation have agreed on a $39 million plan to reduce combined sewer overflows into the Hudson River from the city by nearly 100 million gallons per year. The plan will […]
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The Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge, Dan Shapley / Riverkeeper
Every male smallmouth bass caught in the Wallkill River as part of a federal survey of national wildlife refuges in the Northeastern U.S. had “intersex” characteristics, such as immature eggs that formed in their testes. The likely cause is the presence of endocrine disrupting chemical contamination in the river.
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Orange discharge was observed in summer 2015 during water quality monitoring of the Sparta Brook in Ossining. (Photo by Gareth Hougham)
What IS that orange stuff?
That question occurred to Gareth Hougham of Hudson Valley Arts and Science while conducting two rounds of water quality monitoring on the Sparta Brook this summer.
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There's news breaking today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to propose boosting spending in the next New York State budget for the Environmental Protection Fund, increasing year-over-year funding from by nearly $125 million to $300 million.
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State grants have recently been announced, which will result in at least $22.6 million in direct state and federal investments in community wastewater or green infrastructure projects and studies to improve water quality in the Hudson River Watershed.
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